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    Default Will This Amazon Idea Come to Oz?

    This makes interesting reading, Amazon want to make their own mesh network using near neighbours internet access.

    Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors | Ars Technica

    I guess it is confined to the US but that is only a guess and if so will they try it here.
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    For me, the issue I see is accidental or deliberate spoofing.
    Given the reach of Australia's telecom surveillance laws how would an innocent user prove their innocence if "big brother" had a log of the child abuse websites surfed by a passerby in the street?
    regards from Alberta, Canada

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    Telstra do a similar thing with their NBN modems if the owner enables it. Telstra Air - Your Home Gateway- Telstra Wifi Network
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    About 15 years ago, my son lived in a densely occupied suburb in Sydney and didn't have the internet at home. So he would prepare a bunch of emails on his laptop, press "send" and then drive around the area for five minutes. Hey Presto! All the emails would have been sent when he arrived home courtesy of the number of unsecured networks in the district.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ian View Post
    For me, the issue I see is accidental or deliberate spoofing.
    Given the reach of Australia's telecom surveillance laws how would an innocent user prove their innocence if "big brother" had a log of the child abuse websites surfed by a passerby in the street?
    There is another school of thought that say you should leave wireless networks open (i.e. unsecured) precisely because of this.

    Courts will assume that if a wireless network is secured, it cannot be hacked. That is not true of course; but then it leaves the accused with the not inconsiderable burden of proof to the contrary. Whereas an open network has plausible deniability built in

    I'm not advocating this. There are other reasons for securing networks that arguably are more important than the off-chance of being network spoofed by some technically savvy miscreant.

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